only consideration governing the choice.

The individual
must also ask himself whether the choice will circumscribe
his life or make him more susceptible to the forces in our
society that tend to standardize people.
The would-be individualist will carefully examine his
motives for wanting something and ask himself whether he
is making his choice because it is safe, secure, easy. He will
strive to accept or reject so that he will maintain as much
mobility and personal freedom as possible. He will
understand that however high the price of courage and
selfdetermination,
the rewards are ultimately far greater in
terms of personal satisfaction than can be obtained by
passively permitting himself to be trundled from infancy to
decrepitude by governments and institutions which may
indeed wish him well, but which throttle his individualism.
I am convinced there will always be those who reject any
system that considers them as numbers,